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Life 2.0 – 2 Day Workshop, February 2019

$990.00 AUD

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  • Life is what it is. You can fight, and you’ll lose, every fucking time. Right now is the most glorious moment of your life, how do I know? It’s all you have. It’s. All. You. Have. If you had one day left, it would be your most precious. If you only have one apple left to eat for the rest of your life or one glass of water, you’d treat it like the most special thing in existence. The problem is that we think we have time, and we do, relatively, but we don’t, momentarily. One way of seeing life is relatively where there is endless choice, time and problems, which can make us greedy, needy and dissatisfied or we can remember that now is everything and all that there will be and it will forever be the greatest of your life. When you’re here and present and being, there are no mental issues bogging you down, feeding stress, jealously, heartache, worry, sadness or self doubt. All you’ll notice, when you notice just this moment, is that you’re peaceful, full of energy and a little joy. When you’re still within, you’re full of the most powerful energy in existence; flow. You’re grounded and can openly embrace whatever lies in front of you. Plan, have goals and then relax into it. Pema Chödrön tells a story of a woman running away from tigers. She runs and runs and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When she comes to the edge of a cliff, she sees some vines there, so she climbs down and holds on to the vines. Looking down, she sees that there are tigers below her as well. She then notices that a mouse is gnawing away at the vine to which she is clinging. She also sees a beautiful little bunch of strawberries close to her, growing out of a clump of grass. She looks up and she looks down. She looks at the mouse. Then she just takes a strawberry, puts it in her mouth, and enjoys it thoroughly. Tigers above, tigers below. This is actually the predicament that we are always in, in terms of our birth and death. Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we’ll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.
  • PODCAST with @the_angela_gallo up and alive, loves! Link in bio and or story! Let’s talk about Reclaiming Anger! My guest today is truly in the business of challenging the status quo, and in her own words, gets even the most stubborn of us grooving into an ass shaking + move making state of mind. Angel Phoenix Arsenal (previously known as Angela Gallo) is on the podcast today with myself and my biz sidekick Tara Caetano @taracaetano (stay tuned for an upcoming solo nterview with her soon), to help us reclaim our anger and open our minds up to our privilege, in a way that activates change for the future. In the episode we dive into: Demystifying the topics of oppression, self-suppression and the ways we have been taught to feel unsafe in our anger How the “good girl” mentality and not feeling ‘oppressed enough’ keeps us from participating in conversations that need to be had How anger serves a purpose in activating change, and how not engaging with the oppressive nature of our society is privilege in full action How to discover what you’re truly passionate about How to have a healthy relationship with your anger, in a way that amplifies your work and cultivates confidence and conviction, vs. keeping yourself in a counter productive victim mindset As always, we adore hearing what you think of each episode and appreciate all your itunes ratings and comments on the podcast, so if you enjoyed it, please let us know by giving us a five star and leaving a review. You can head over to your favourite platform to do this and subscribe – iTunes, Spotify, Libsyn.
  • It’s a tough gig sometimes, this self exploration. But my goal is to always help you/me/be more open. That’s why it’s worth taking a look at how you ended up where you are. It’s a good place to begin if you want to expand within, become clearer and less triggered by the world around you and basically have more joy through being. By the way - at my co hosted August retreat in a month with Dr. Jeremy Goldberg (link in bio) we dive into the workings of mind and emotions and how it shapes our reality.
  • I’m running a retreat in August with @longdistancelovebombs and we dive into our stories that hold us back. Links in my bio - Byron retreat! I love regression work. I love helping you understand the link between past pain, repressed trauma, somatic release, honouring of needs and loving kindness towards our reactive shadows. If you want to up the ante and use your triggers for an exponential growth opportunity - watch this. Stop swimming and analysing your shit and you’ll suddenly be much more shit free :)
  • When the focus of growth is about “me” and “my truth” and “my boundaries” and “my feelings”, we’re fucked. We’re limiting out own potential, attempting to bind it in an identity. We’re so engrossed in the development of the self that we create self importance and entitlement about what and who we now are or trying to “become”. We’re obsessed with the “perfectly conscious” formats; the scripts, the frame works and the systems, moving further and further away from what’s beyond that “self” we’re working so hard to develop. However it is not all gloom and doom. We need to see and experience what we are not to remember who we are. The ego can be an intimate experience with a spiritual existence if we can take a breathe between thoughts and carefully direct out attention to growth for the greater good, for union, for unity of all. May my boundaries lift you up and not keep you out. My my expression open your heart, not cut you down. May my truth reveal your own self acceptance of yours not convince you of mine. May my mindfulness and presence allow for release not magnification of my pain. May my meditations dissolve my samskaras, not create attachments to a state of bliss. May my feminism love the masculine within, not condemn the one without. May my movements reflect the light of your own passion, not scare you into my beliefs. May my feelings and emotions be a cultivation of empathy for yours not an entitlement to projection. May my awareness of the roots of trauma be a catalyst for change not a deflection of self responsibility. May all my practices allow me to shed my “self” and embrace you even more. May I never attempt to rise away from my humanity and collective, not individual, purpose of realisation, not blinded with my head up my very own spiritually-self-important asshole. 📸 @marvinsane
  • When shit hits the fan - how can you remain calm? How can you set boundaries and speak your truth? How can you hold space for your own fears and feelings and not get caught in them? How can you fave your of self judgments and criticism and return to unconditional love for self? Here is an insight on how knowing who and what you truly are allow you to practice (you’ll fail again and again and again at this) holding your energy and observing your own triggers. So, no buying into the mind, other peoples fears and projection or trying to change the world and fight with reality in order to be okay. This is empowerment. This is radical responsibility. Love me
  • Bucket loads of respect and compassion for the process of what it is to realise that you’re a human and there’s caves of dark corners to explore and purge and purge some more. In the end, it really comes down to taking radical responsibilities for your life. This is NOT about blame or guilt or shame of self, it’s about awareness and the freedom of choice of what you can do with what you have in front of you ❤️
  • NEW PODCAST: Dr Jeremy Goldberg @longdistancelovebombs My guest today is a repeat offender (guest) on the podcast. What I love most about this podcast is how much change I know is possible for anyone who listens to it. The conversation style of Jer and I becomes a crazy in depth banter where we take things to a deep level of understanding and embodiment, fast. It’s just how we roll which is why I am so damn excited to announce the Ignite Your Life retreat we are running in August together in Byron Bay. Check it out in the link in my bio.. The major take aways you’ll get from this episode encompass: Why human beings find it so difficult to change and how to get leverage on yourself to ease that grind It’s not about massive action (even though sometimes it is), it’s about the little things (which we dive into everyday examples of small changes for massive results) What it really takes to turn your investment of time, energy, money and ‘hopes’ into actual action despite a lifetime of resistance and patterning How to call yourself out on your own BS The most effective way to make change stick What kind of damage self denial, rejection, shame and guilt about not being good enough can do and how to spot when this is playing out in your life even though it’s terrifying to face at times Lots of jokes, dirty ones, bad ones, sad ones, ones that no one but ourselves will laugh at! Head over to http://www.amberhawken.com/knowledgeandwisdom/ or link in my bio —>> latest The AH Podcast ❤️
  • Why growth and change feels uncomfortable and at times, so damn difficult to sustain. Here is a little story to help you understand. When you give up eating junk food you are working with attachment not just chemically to the sugar, but you’re also working on opening up to and facing/feeling whatever it was that you were avoiding/numbing escaping when shovelling the food down your throat. When you grow, you have to also release whatever little egoic benefits you were gaining from staying small. Its a real ticker and why it takes so much courage. Giving up the validation/gratification/connection for being….. The giver The nice one The best at everything The hard worker The strong one The one who always has it together To cool kid The unattached spiritual (bypassing) person The independent warrior The hustler The coach Oh yes, same goes for the “negative” aspects of ourselves that we benefit from (can be a little harder to admit and spot) The victim The loner The non-people person The insecure/scared one The one who just doesn’t like people The one who the world is against The one who no one likes The one who everyone judges We all get a kick from our identities, but just like any drug, there is a draw back and a lust for more after each hit. This is the exact same process with growth as we shed parts of ourselves that are actually self protective mechanism to escape trauma, discomfort or pain. Say for example most of your life you have been really “strong and independent”. You would have been validation for this over and over again. However you get to a point where this strong independence is carefully observed and we see that it wasn’t coming from a place of inspiration and love, it was so move away from being dependant and weak because once upon a time we learned through experiences or being told that it was. When we start to grow as a person, you’re not adding new behaviours, you’re shedding old ones and with that shedding its so important to be aware that the challenge and discomfort in this growth isn’t just in change, its in facing the fear of not having that validation for the part of you that wasn’t even real. Know this, the pay off for relea
  • Practical steps. No hacks. No tricks. No short cuts. It takes presence, practice and dedicated to yourself to continue to re connect with yourself when your mind wants you to follows its judgments, worries and analysis of each moments. The more we can practice self connection, using each and every moment to do so, the less we will be focused on the problems we spend so much time disconnected from ourselves trying to escape. My podcast has been re launched with this solo episode. Two more releases coming today. Link in my bio - accessible to subscribe iTunes, libsyn and Spotify 🦄
  • Most of my work involves helping people find, unpack and love unconditionally, the parts of themselves they shame and compensate for by placing up a false sense of identity that has protected them, usually from pain in childhood/learned behaviours around success and worth. This is a two part video unpacking how we develop a shadow aspect and how they play out in our lives as toxic behaviours that we express, toxic circumstances that we create and people that reflect back to us these shadow aspects. I created this video because there are so many people reaching out expressing breaking point right now - be it that they are growing and expanding and it is pushing them to their upper limit edge or they are cracking in a circumstance where they feel that they can’t go on. I want to speak to this because these are the points in our lives when we have the most profound opportunity to own a shadow aspect that has been unconsciously running us and really make change by being able to embrace what we are afraid face and therefore completely transform our life. Shadow work is freedom work.
  • There’s so much about life that inspires me to burn it all to the ground and advocate fiercely for change, and at the same time, i feel so relaxed that there’s just no rush, no urgency, no pressure and no need to push. What a bloody odd concept. It’s quite a terrifying place for that good old ego who prefers to ride the wave of expectations and achievements. But when you look deeply enough into everything we’re all saying to each other - you realise, we don’t need to do a fucking thing, and that will paradoxically be what wakes us all up ❤️ I wrote these words down a long time ago in a book I was flicking through and while they’re lovely, I don’t think they’re mine. If you know who wrote these please let me know 🖖🏼🖤🍄

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